embroidered faces

a few years ago on the everyday matters yahoo group, there was a suggestion about making a one inch drawing everday. someone posted a grid of 30 one inch squares. so everyday, i drew a face of someone who came into the shop where i was working. some of the faces really charmed me. i scanned them, blew them up to 2" each and printed them on fabric. then i embroidered over the drawn lines. still have never figured out what to do with them. once they were matted at put into a show. but now i think i'd like to stitch them on a pocket or bag. any ideas?

love quilt

this is a photo of a photo of a wedding quilt i made a few years ago for my good friend and acupuncturist. it was machine pieced and hand quilted. the light color rectangles around the edges are where the wedding guests wrote notes to the bride and groom.

i don't have many quilts to show on the blog, even tho i have been a quilter since the '70's. many of my things are in storage, including a hard drive with lots of quilt images. also, now that i am in school and living in a two-room apt, there is not much space for all of my fabric, batting, etc. and it has been good for me to shift my focus to embroidery and painting and drawing for a while. once-in-a while you will see something quilted here, i promise. can't get too far away from my roots.

LOVE today.

happy sock monkey reunion

look! here she is. irritable has been found. she took the long, long trip across the ocean and to the desert to see her love. big hiney can hardly wait for her to jump out of the box and give him a hug!

they are jumping for joy!



after celebrating, they are settling in to watch their favorite tv show, the wire.

sock monkey and buddha

looks like 'shut up' made it to baltimore safe and sound, via the traveling sock monkey house and seems that he found buddha when he got there.

rumor has it that irritable has been found in baghdad...more to come!

can i lend you a hand?

what makes me want to stitch stuff like this?

mamajules has a good posting about lost gloves. something intriguing about them...